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I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.

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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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Businessperson
Legal Secretary
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Eleanor Marie Robertson
Jill March
Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder
J. D. Robb
Sarah Hardesty
Eleanor Wilder
Rarely
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